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As Congress prepares to pass a $900 billion COVID-19 stimulus bill rolled into a consolidated appropriations package - with funding for assistance for households and businesses, along with vaccine distribution and other pandemic-related measures, the bill also includes a ton of pork per usual.
We already know about the $600 checks for each adult and dependent. This time, however, 'mixed-status' households where eligible citizens live with illegal immigrants, will not only receive payments - they can retroactively claim benefits after being left out of the last round.
Michelle Hackman
@MHackman
Family members of unauthorized immigrants are now eligible to get stimulus checks under the $900 billion deal reached last night. That eligibility is retroactive, so adults excluded last time could get up to $1800 now
The bill also includes $300 per week in enhanced unemployment benefits, and would extend unemployment to 50 weeks for both state and federal programs, vs. the standard 26 weeks.
And now, on to the pork... which includes billions to foreign countries, US military weapons purchases which go above and beyond their budgets, $40 million for the Kennedy Center, and nearly $200 million so that federal HIV/AIDS workers overseas can buy cars and car insurance, among other things.
The Covid relief bill also includes $10 million for “gender programs” in Pakistan
Also included is $453 million to Ukraine, on top of the $400 million Trump eventually released. No word on how much of that goes to the 'big guy.'
$130,265,000 to *ucking backwoods-ass Nepal
SEVEN HUNDRED MILLION TO SUDAN
ONE POINT THREE BILLION TO EGYPT
IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ECONOMIC CRISIS
$135 million to Burma, $85.5 million to Cambodia, $1.4 billion for an "Asia Reassurance Initiative Act," and $130 million to Nepal.
The Stimulus Bill:
The gov't closes the economy. You lose your job. You face eviction.
$600 for all your troubles. NO $HIT!!!!!!!!!!!
$4 billion for Navy weapons procurement, $2 billion for Space Force and $2 billion for Air Force missiles.
$208 million to upgrade the Census Bureau's computer systems (which couldn't have waited until the next count in 2030?).
$40 million for the Kennedy Center, and funding to discourage teenagers from drinking and hooking up.
$193 million for federal HIV/AIDS workers to buy cars and car insurance overseas, and a feminist museum.
FOREIGN HANDOUTS:,,,,,,,,,,,,,,more,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.
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